Dhe Prime Minister has climbed up to the pulpit to address the congregation. Daniel Günther stands in St. Petri Cathedral in Schleswig, pulls his mask off his face and looks down at the rows of believers. Günther himself is said to have admired the pulpit in the cathedral and probably joked that he wanted to speak there. When the bishop actually invited the top candidates of the parties to give pulpit speeches on a Bible passage for the state elections, it was Günther who hesitated a bit. Who knows how it works when a politician speaks to the community? What it looks like and what a sentence sounds like: The prime minister has climbed up to the pulpit to speak to the congregation.
In any case, Daniel Günther is now standing in the pulpit and the community is waiting quietly. It’s a Sunday in March, outside Schleswig lies sleepy in the morning sun and inside all the rows in the mighty cathedral are filled to the last seat. Günther has prepared a pulpit speech on the Bible verse “Be kind and affectionate to one another and forgive one another, just as God forgave you in Christ”, Ephesians 4:32.